Some thoughts on blogging

I see that user interface for blogspot has changed a lot. Well, that's expected, given the 16 years gap in my blogging. Yes, I like it. I was not aware Google owns Blogger since 2003. It may explain why blogspot is still around. If a relatively small tech company held it, it may have closed shop sooner. I used to blog under the site pitas. I see it is no longer around (and so are my older blog posts). Ahh well, less embarrassment then in reading my older posts. 

Some history of blogging - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging. Oh yes, in the past Wikipedia was not widely used. The go to search portal was yahoo and google. Blogging sites soon started dying with the advent of social media platforms. With the birth of Facebook (now Meta), things changed pretty quickly. People started posting more frequently in FB than on their blogs (at least for those few blogging friends I had). Largely because the posting of photos were easier and the outreach was wider. People (family and friends in your 'friends' network) are more likely to come across your posts and share their comments. 

With the old blogs, you need to individually check out the bloggers by navigating to their blogspot sites. If you see my old posts, there are some comments left there. These are by individuals (friends) who will regularly drop by to see if there are any updates. In this respect, FB sure made things easier, through their algorithm, by making your posts appear as 'feeds' in the user's FB page.

So, it is clearly more convenient in using FB to create posts. There are also other sites, such as substack, medium, ghost, wordpress. I understand it allows the users to monetize their content. I have not tried them myself.

Then there is LinkedIn. For the career professionals who share posts on their career (and sometimes personal) lives.

One aspect I enjoyed about blogging is, after a day out, you come home and share how it was like. Sometimes with exaggeration, done solely for the purpose of keeping the readers entertained. 

No fancy posts to impress, no strong opinions, little criticisms. Writing for a few but mostly for yourself.

-SMN